November 29, 2017

We presently have a full-blown Constitutional Crisis in progress. What gets done about it will determine if the "malaise" our Nation suffers through with the polarized Parties gets bad enough to drive us to Civil War, or whether a remedy can be found to put us on the track back towards Constitutional governance. Spoiler: I think that Civil War is already here. Read on...

Within two days after Trump won the election last year, the Democrats had declared "The Resistance". The purpose of this "Resistance" was simple: throw every possible roadblock in the way of the then-coming Trump Administration. As a party, the Democrats have fairly efficient internal cohesion, and they had obviously planned this as a fall-back in case their "inevitable" Hillary failed to win.

Next, Trump himself made some major mistakes. Early on after his victory, he messed around with grabbing advisers from anywhere he could find them. It was obvious that Trump was unprepared to implement his victory, because most of the "advisers" he selected early on were rats, like General Flynn. His campaign staffers SHOULD have been at work for months pre-selecting these people, but they failed to get that started, and Trump failed to notice that failure.

After inauguration, the Democrat's path became obvious, and it has been obvious ever since: slow the formation of Trump's Cabinet down to a crawl, denying him any impetus of movement. Not only the Democratic Party is involved in that, but the Liberal Judiciary is as well, allowing the filing of a blizzard of lawsuits against just about everything Trump has tried in the way of reforms in many different governmental processes. This slow-roll is VERY effective, and it will get worse.

How worse can it get, my astute Readers must be asking? Look at the little stunt that was pulled yesterday: Trump asked for a meeting with Democrat leaders Pelosi and Schumer, and they both failed to show up for the meeting! BTW, this is NOT a new trick, the Democrats pulled this to stymie the incoming GOP Legislature in Texas a few years back. In that case, the entire Democratic register of that Assembly left the State to avoid having to turn the Legislature over to the GOP which had won a majority.

Okay, you have the picture. Now I will ask the question that all the above history was written down to bring forward: When does this "Resistance" become an actual Rebellion against the constituted AND Constitutional authority of Mr. Trump and his party, the Republicans?

My answer is that it ALREADY is a definable and actual rebellion. First, it is a carefully-planned operation with the specific goal of refusing to allow the duly-elected Administration of President Trump to effectively hold office and proceed with his duties of Chief Executive Officer of the USA. Second, there is plenty of evidence that parts of this rebellious operation have been financed from offshore, by elements of international Marxism, specifically George Soros, who has budgeted 18 Billion dollars of his huge fortune to bring Trump's governance to a halt. Finally, there is the violence aspect, with the Marxist street-gang calling itself "Antifa", another Soros-paid operation.

In my not-so-humble opinion, this Nation is already involved in Civil War: The Left, and their political arm, the Democrats, have seceded from the United States of America.

November 28, 2017

I have my "Clue-stick" in hand now, and I'm in my engagement pose, strong foot forward. I am TOTALLY ready to smite anyone who believes the Deep State crap that Trump had a ""rude" slip of the tongue, or that a "racial" remark was said as he talked to the Navaho War Veterans last night and referred to one of his LIKELY opponents in the 2020 race as "Pocahontas".

On the "racial" thing, it doesn't exist, except in the addled brain of Elizabeth Warren. She and Trump are the exact same race, Caucasian. Is she STILL trying to foist off the phony AmerInd heritage she fraudulently claimed several years ago to get a $350K/yr job teaching ONE insignificant class at Harvard University? POTUS just used his saber on her balloon.

People, how could you be DUMB enough to believe that Trump's entire remarks were NOT built around this master-stroke of a preemptive attack on an opponent? Not only was it a master-stroke, but it has WORKED like a dream. EVERYONE has now heard about the "Fauxcahontas" story, because the Press Secretary just briefed briefed them on Warren's fraudulent deceptions involved with it.

Even Deep State Fox News, which AGAIN followed the Globalist Never-Trump line and chided POTUS severely for the remark, even "Faux News" had to recall the Fauxcahontas deception!

This demonstrates Trump's power of communications, and demonstrates it PERFECTLY. This move has the Bannon stamp on it, and I hope that Mr. Bannon got properly and well-paid for his work. This, people, is how you turn the worst evil of the corrupt media back on their own networks.

November 21, 2017

...after the first two, 22 years in the military and 25 fighting crime on the mean streets. Excuse the typesetting, I know it sucks (the new O/S).

I just figured out my third career: I will be Second Banana (straight-man) to various feline jokers. First, my cat never ties of trying to cadge me out of an extra meal after the gudwife feeds him and he has gobbled it down in the best Large Orange Cat tradition. He begs by his empty dish and I am tempted just to scoop up some kibble, but I usually ask the missus, whose usual reply is "Fed him two hours ago".

Second, my sweet old neighbor lady's cat, an indoor & outdoor cat. I have my parka on in the rain, doing the weekly garbage cart fill and positioning at the end of my driveway. This poor beast comes up to me, all wet, and begs me to let him in MY house to find some dry and warmth. I finish with the carts and trudge over to the neighbor's and ring her doorbell. On the way over there, the cat races ahead of me and hops up on the park bench on her well-sheltered stoop (we both have these benches for stoop-sitting). I observe numerous paw prints on the faded pain of the bench. When neighbor opens up, she says that she just let the cat out! She tries to get the cat into the house, but it moves a few feet away and snubs both of our offers for it's dry and warm shelter.

On my way next to the mailbox, it hits me: both of these cats know that I can be played for a chump. I think I will try to find an agent to rep me to the greater cat-world...

November 20, 2017

Might be a Mad Hatter as well, some days. Ubuntu destroyed itself with a routine upgrade, so I went for Fedora on the advice of my SysEng S.I.L. It loaded up like a dream. Seems slower than Ubuntu in some regards, such as loading apps and software. Cripes! It took 23 minutes to load Firefox V. 57! Thunderbird loaded right up, though.

Never say never, buuuuut, this is probably the most hack-proof O/S commonly available. DOD uses it for encrypted shit up thru Level Two, which, IIRC is Secret, NoForn. I have two layers of shell on it, and each one requires login. I could have had a third, the KDE Desktop, which has yet another layer. I have all that in an older Fedora distro on a little Gateway Netbook that is my BugOut Puter. Ready to go, with two high-endurance batteries charged, I could stay on it for 16 hours if I had to.

This puter had a fall-back second boot of Win7Pro on it. As I looked through the files to see if I needed to save anything, I noted that I hadn't booted Windows in over two months. No loss there. I don't own a windows machine now. Wife still has one, runs Win 10.3, she doesn't use a fiftieth of the capacity of that O/S.

As I look at Windows, all I see is worry about hacks. Computing shouldn't bring worry.

November 16, 2017

Al Franken: Strange we have heard no demands for resignation of Franken from the Senate's GOPe leadership. Oh, that's right, Deep State. H/T to the Baconator.

Firefox' new edition (Firefox Quantum, V.57.0) on my Linux machine is so buggy, I might have to burn the whole computer to de-bug it...

The entire problem with the Tax Bill before the House today is that it is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and no sheep-dogs are around to save the sheep. This should NEVER have been referred to as a Tax Relief Bill. It isn't. This House bill simply makes the middle class pay for corporate tax relief, and that's ALL it does. Animal abuse, I know, but screw them and the horse they rode in on. For the first time in MY memory, Nancy Pelosi got it right when she called this spade a shovel.

What is better for the culture: women running hither and yon screaming for the scalps of men who touched them at some point in their life, perhaps 40 years ago, or everybody just STFU and put the important questions up for a vote first?

If you still have a Keurig machine to make your coffee, you just made my fail list for critical thinking. Very convenient to use, but using a Melitta filter-funnel or a French Press is nearly as convenient, makes BETTER coffee, and won't put 9 billion non-degradable little cups into landfills.

Has anyone else noticed that the Left has produced NO polls on the current electability of Judge Roy Moore? Seems to me they would have made that "Breaking News" if they had one, so I conclude that this faux-issue hasn't affected AL voters in the least. Last poll I did see had him up 10% over the dummocrat, so I expect that's still holding.

Sexual Harassment Training for Congress-critters? Don't make me laugh. I had that at several work-places during my working life and it didn't change a damn thing except generate tons of new paper files.

Is it possible to get a brown-out on only one leg of your household's two phases of mains power? I'd never experienced that before but it happened a few nights ago during a windstorm here.

So writing expressive prose and poems bashes women? Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth are all sex abusers? This is what you get when you let idiots go nuts with hashtags.

Roy Moore for the win: Wanna know which Faux-Cons are actually Deep State? Just check their positions re: Roy Moore. Moore is the GENUINE swamp-drainer, and the Swamp is desperate to keep him out of the Senate, where he will quickly blow away the fog and reveal the people and tactics the Deep State uses to bring us their Globalist Agenda.

November 10, 2017

Typepad (the blogging company which puts up with me). They have an accounting program so D.U.M.B. that it can't tell a renewed credit card, ON THE SAME ACCOUNT from an expired one, so I get nasty-grams.

The Media: their transgressions against the lawful body politic (President Trump) are so egregious, I am not sure I have faith in Freedom of the Press any more. In fact, comes the "Un-Do", then the "Re-Do", I am not sure that the Second Constitution will even HAVE press freedom. At least there MUST be penalties for political advocacy. Media, you are permitted to report all the facts you want, and you are even permitted to opine (but opinions need to be labeled as such and not be passed off as fact). You NEVER have permission under the 1A to lie and deliberately perpetrate falsehoods DESIGNED to make the work of Government difficult or even impossible. That's PROPAGANDA, and it is NOT protected by the 1A as the Founders installed it in the Bill of Rights. Spewing those lies will be HANGING offenses in the Second Republic.

Lear Capital, Inc: I am tired of their lying advocacy about the value of precious metals. Silver has traded narrowly between $12-16 for years, and sales are so-so, so Lear attempts to pump them up with the wild claim that silver will rise to $200 in the near future. Where is Treasury on this, where is FCC? Outrageous lying claim to sell their wares. Anyone else would be hammered for this crap, why isn't Lear Capital? Is the FIX in? BTW, you don't have to MINE silver anymore. About 90% of world silver requirements are supplied by recycling, and the rest is easily obtained by an electrolytic extraction process using seawater. The silver salts are removed from the sea water. All you need is a pipe bringing you ocean water and a large electrical supply.

Jeff Sessions: Sessions is the biggest albatross around Trump's neck now, and he should be fired. Of all of Trump's Drain the Swamp agenda, the only part of it Sessions is keen on is Immigration. He's bearish on illegals and Sanctuary cities, but hasn't actually changed much. On everything else, the PHONY "Russiagate" the Dems conjured up to hide their own treason to sell weapons-grade uranium-ore concentrate to Putin, the attempts to steal the 2016 election by the super-snake Hillary Clinton, the HUGE and OBVIOUS money-laundering processes of the Democratic Party via the Clinton Foundation, the Pay-for-Play, etc, etc, ad nauseam, Sessions "RECUSED" himself from all of that. The FBI, Sessions' primary investigatory tool, is as corrupt as the day is long, Sessions does nothing. Fire his Deep-State ass, Mr. Trump!

The NFL: Despite a full month of the effective Boycott, the Deep State backs the culture-destroying thugs of the NFL and their thug-tolerant owners. Congress, don't wait for Tax Reform, the Deep State is going to Deep-Six it anyway, separate out that removal of tax subsidy from pro sports and pass it as a stand-alone bill. If you do that, SOME of you worthless wankers might actually get re-elected.

I could go on, and on, and on, but these ought to give you the message, and now I need a stress-relieving nap.

November 06, 2017

The Tax Bill is on my mind. It's really TWO tax bills, welded into one. This is a strange turn of events, historically. Read on.

The Tax bill has two major parts, Corporate Tax Relief and Personal Income Tax Reform. Those two parts are widely separated in their economic details, yet both are being written into one bill. Why is that?

The answer lies in the leftward surge of the Democratic Party. As of now (at least until HRC is jailed), the Democratic Party is more Marxist than American. We see that every day, where the primary purpose of Democrats seems to be to tear down this Nation rather than see to it's excellence. Consider the (D) view of the two parts of this Tax Bill: they might be able to swallow their bile and accept "Tax Relief for the Middle Class" (as long as it doesn't make the Free Shit Army have to pay taxes), but they will NEVER accept Corporate Tax Relief. The Ds are anti-capitalist to the max. Well, except for their own limousine liberals, that is.

By attaching despised Corporate Tax Relief to the acceptable Middle Class Tax Relief, the GOPe hopes that they can eke both by the Ds. That's the game plan.

It's a losing game plan, and the dollars prove it. Corporate Tax Relief is a huge negative to the Treasury, some say as much as $US1.25T/year. No way that passes muster. How to deal with that Deficit Hog? The easy answer is to increase taxes on the personal side, and THAT.WILL.BE.DONE.

The "Bracket Adjustments", the loss of the un-reimbursed Medical Deductions, the loss of the State/Local Tax Deduction and the loss of at least half the Mortgage Interest Deduction will RAISE taxes for the average middle class family, about $4K/yr in my case. This Tax Bill, as proposed, will HAMMER the middle class, probably kill off the current growth surge in the GDP.

It's a Bad Deal for us. Send this bill to the dustbin of Deep State FUBARS, quickly, my friends.

November 02, 2017

...on the intertubes. Bluster about AntiFa going to war in two days. Bluster about the ISIS cretin who took out a school bus and some bike riders in NYC. Bluster about "triggering" liberloons, who claim the protection of the constitution to NOT be "triggered".

This is the Best Bluster, hands down:

"When brown and black people go to war, villages burn. When white people go to war, continents burn." It was attributed to a guy on FB, but I don't find it on his page, so I will just attribute it to the world. It might be a truism. It might be racist. It's probably BOTH!